All true. In my case I had to take a huge pay cut just so I was able to get into the industry. I'm not sure if this is the correct way (or the only way) to get in from a web development background. It is just what I did.
There are fewer companies that do embedded systems, but there are also not that many developers. Headhunters call me a few times a month just to ask if I'm willing to change my job, since experienced real-time embedded systems engineers are so rare that they have to actually steal one from somewhere else.
There are fewer companies that do embedded systems, but there are also not that many developers. Headhunters call me a few times a month just to ask if I'm willing to change my job, since experienced real-time embedded systems engineers are so rare that they have to actually steal one from somewhere else.
Really, really, depends on your situation.